The highlight of our week was definitely our science classes. This week, we mixed primary colours to create secondary colours. The students needed to use fine motor skills to mix the paint without spreading it outside the box indicated on their paper. A big merci to our family volunteers who helped make this experiment possible and not too messy! We also documented our knowledge of primary and secondary colours with pencil crayons and words in our science booklets.

PERFORMANCE The students performed at the HERO Assembly this past Friday. A huge merci to Mme Lee, Mme Goettel, Mme Mills and Mrs. Walker who helped our class do a great job! Bravo les amis, vous avez très bien chanté!

DANCE PARTY After the HERO Assembly, the students were able to boogie down at the Division One Dance Party. The dance was held in recognition of the students’ efforts to raise over $ 1500 during the Toonie for Terry fundraiser.

PHONOLOGIE This week, we completed our study of the letter and sound Rr and Ee. Students were able to locate various words in the classroom containing these letters and sounds. As always, we did a sound based vocabulary study and letter formation study in our booklets. The students also continued putting consonant and vowel sounds together. Please use the school’s Francisation alphabet sound resources to help strengthen your child’s phonological awareness.

ÉCRITURE In writing, we created sentences using previously studied colours rouge, jaune and orange. We synthesized our knowledge from our first writing activities to provide variation in our sentences. The students reinforced much of the same vocabulary from before. In our future writing endeavours, we will try to use new, more challenging vocabulary to enrich the students’ language. LECTURE Students read simple sentences with colours rouge, jaune and orange and visually represented the message to indicate comprehension. For example, the sentence could say C’est une étoile jaune and the students would draw a yellow star next to the sentence to show they recognize key sight words.

We reached NINE minutes in stamina reading this week. We are ahead of Mme Mills’ class... but not by much! The students are so excited to reach the 10 minute mark… let’s cross our fingers for this week! The students are also demonstrating the ability to self-reflect and self-regulate in regards to stamina reading. During our check in times, the students are more able to accurately indicate where they lost focus or began to get off track. After a check in, everyone is recharged and reminded of how to be successful readers. The Daily 5 model has been great for establishing student ownership, as well as keeping things challenging, positive and engaging for the students in our classroom! MATHÉMATIQUES Students continued to work on subitizing numbers one to 10. We played dice games where, in partners, the students rolled a dice, identified the number of dots as fast as possible, and then document their data in their math notebooks. The students were beaming as they played with a new partner and received coupons for using as much French in their oral language as possible. Later, the students were given a second dice and had to add the two amounts together. It was amazing to see the students decide when they were ready for the second dice and recognize that the activity could be made more challenging. We will continue to study subitizing numbers 6 to 10 these are the most challenging for students to recognize instantaneously. If you wish to work on this at home, simply play dice games such as these where you roll the dice and try to recognize the dot formations quickly. You may also create flash cards or practice drawing our groups of dots.

This week we completed a study of the number 8. Next week, we will finish numbers 1 to 10 with our regular routine our locating, identifying, producing, counting, representing and creating groups of 9 and 10.

LIBRARY Mme Wood was away from the school this Wednesday and we were unable to attend library. Please ensure your child returns their library book to school this Wednesday, October 9th to exchange it for a new one. Thank you for your understanding.

FAMILY PROJECT You received your family project this week. Please contact me as soon as possible if you feel you may be missing any required materials or if you have any questions. To access the audio clips, please click on the Family Projects page under the Parent Information tab.

Je vous remercie de votre soutien et de votre participation. Il me fait grand plaisir de travailler avec vos enfants.Thank you for your support and participation. It is a great pleasure to work with your children. -Mlle Jessica Schultchen